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Feminist blasts Taylor Swift as “a Nazi Barbie”

"Writing about Taylor Swift is a horrific ordeal for me because her twinkly persona is such a scary flashback to the fascist blondes who ruled the social scene during my youth,” says feminist writer Camille Paglia. Swift is shown here with a new friend, also named Taylor, before her sold-out Atlanta show.

“Her twinkly persona is a scary flashback to the fascist blondes who ruled the social scene during my youth,” says the feminist writer, adding Swift should end the “Nazi Barbie routine of wheeling out friends and celebrities as performance props.”

Taylor Swift with a new friend, also named Taylor, before her sold-out Atlanta show.

Swift isn’t the only entertainer in her sights. In a piece for the Hollywood Reporter on “girl squads,” Paglia notes that “(n)ames appearing on the shifting roster of girl squads include Drew Barrymore, Reese Witherspoon, Selena Gomez, Willow Smith, Kendall Jenner, Sofia Richie, Chloe Sevigny and Karlie Kloss. Hot models Gigi Hadid and Cara Delevingne bob and weave through several groups. Adele joined the club in November when she dined out in New York with Emma Stone and varsity squad player Jennifer Lawrence.”

It’s the “girl squad” dynamic Paglia finds fault with, writing: “Young women performers are now at the mercy of a swarming, intrusive paparazzi culture, intensified by the hypersexualization of our flesh-baring fashions. The girl squad phenomenon has certainly been magnified by how isolated and exposed young women feel in negotiating the piranha shoals of the industry.”

Wowsers. I just looked Camille up because I have never heard of her and I see why she has issues with women. She is one very unattractive woman and put that with the filth she spews, she is ugly on the inside as well. Santa don't forget her coal this year!!

Poor Paglia. She wasted her life on the sad, sick philosophy of militant feminism, and now exists as a total, miserable, hate-filled, bitter old hag.

It's probably too late for her, but I hope that some young women look at Paglia and see her as a warning to reject the sad lunacy of feminism, and seek a more balanced approach to life that doesn't involve hating anyone and everyone who is different.

Paglia is a hateful and hate-filled troll who lashes out at anybody she thinks has a better life than her. Because she makes herself so miserable, she must try to make everyone around her miserable, as well.

I can't pretend to know about Camille Paglias youth however I can say it sounds like she is judging someone by her gender youth and hair color. That should be a no no for anyone. Who is Camille to say what empowers an individual. I see my daughters generation empowered by many things that mine wasn't. Maybe Camille needs to actual meet and spend time with someone before she judges.

Ever since Obama took office, the liberal nuts in our nation have felt emboldened to make ridiculous statements like this. Michael Moore, Kasim Reed, Bernie Sanders, Rahm Emmanuel, Ellen Degneres, and many others continuously spew out this spiteful rhetoric. We desperately need new national leadership and a sense of shame among the radical liberals in our nation. I know they don't have the agreement of the American people but they have the sponsorship of the White House, and that needs to end, so we can get back to being the America we love.

@ChuckAllison Yeah, this only started happening in the last 7 years, everything was peace, love and roses before that.We are not going to get new leadership. The republican party will continue to support non-electable candidates handing the presidency over to the next dem. It's painful to watch and I fear for our future.

@ChuckAllison The one good thing to come from the desolate Age of Obama is this: all the masks have slipped off all the faces of Liberalism, showing everyone the deranged hate-filled lunacy of left wing philosophies.

@Tallulah Sorry, I'm a Republican/retired Navy Officer. The president doesn't correspond with me on a regular basis (despite my service). No kool-aid here, but I can think for myself. You should give it a try."I bet she embraces Muslims and Islam" was such a illogical leap, I just had to comment.

@Tallulah I bet you molest your children every night, then sneak out to molest your neighbor's children. Maybe you should be a televangelist, you'd get more of them to molest. See, I can play the guessing game just like you. Got just as much proof of my claims as you do yours.

I'm not a Swift fan, but, she spends a LOT of time with sick children making them happy and, in turn, feel better. This irrelevant shell of a person has to attack whoever she can in an offensive and hateful manner to try to make herself feel better. I am offended by her and demand she be fired.

This article is just another confirmation of the decline and loss of credibility in today's main stream media. Which are mostly left winged liberal and one sided whose purpose is to push the liberal agenda.

I congratulate Taylor Smith (and even more her management) on the amazing success they've been able to parlay from Ms. Smith's extremely average talents. I understand that success is its own reward, but the fact is that this young woman can't really sing very well. As for the rest, the only reason Taylor Smith is being targeted here, is because she's a pop idol to young girls. Everything that she does and shows the public is choreographed, so basically everything that she's being criticized for here is part of a put-on that makes her a lot of money. I think the same could be said of anyone in modern-day show business.

@RexDogma if you think she cannot sing, then you might want to ban all the crap rap hip hop idiots who don't sing. They are like the crooners- just extending sentences, like pit bull- they talk thru the song and not sing it.

I wish the bloggers would at least educate themselves regarding this lesbian reactionary who Gloria Steinem has described as a neo-Nazi. Ms. Paglia is opposed to traditional females - 'liberated' or not - get over it. This is a major yawner. I don't know why the AJC would pay attention to her malodorous utterances.

@FarTrain. Ultralibneral? Paglia has been labelled a neo-fascist. She would like to be the Dictator the right wing keeps hoping for. Better be careful what you wish for - you might get Paglia - or maybe Trump.

A Google image search does indeed reveal that Camille Paglia is as ugly as can be. But attacking a girl just for being pretty makes her even uglier. Of course she's a darling to the AJC, worthy of front page attention.

@Scotus@Ralph-43 The Nazis were hardly conservative. Among other things, part of their master plan was to push out of wedlock births ("Fuhrer's Brides") so the youth and generations that followed would depend more on the state than their "Families." Sound familiar?

@Scotus Let me take the ball and go further with it. This lady's comments show that she really don't get it. Taylor Swift and the rest of these ladies are JUST A FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT... Taylor is just doing her job. She is just there to entertain people. It is the responsibility of the parents to enrich the kids the dos and don'ts of life. There are a lot of women running around the world who have made great advancements in the female arena: Lilly Ledbetter (the advancement of women getting the same pay as men for doing the same job), Cheryl Sanberg (CEO of Facebook), Malila (the young girl who had acid spilled on her just because she wanted to go to school), and etc. Mrs. Paglia needs to focus on these women. Yes, an artist have a responsibility to whatever form of art they put out. But it is the responsibility of the public to DO the work and have a the final say what is good or not.